Cyber-hugs and robot babies - a brave new world

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Nigel Kerner: Artificial! Synthetic! Virtual! These are the buzz words of the new millennium, buzz words that describe the brave new world it seems we cannot wait to reach. Every week there are blazing new technological developments towards this end. It seems that even over the past year the momentum has gathered blistering speed. We are all too happy for the natural to be replaced by the artificial. ‘Sim card man’ is truly on the horizon.

This week there are reports that a Tokyo University team has developed a robot designed to simulate the development and behaviour of a nine-month-old baby in an effort to better understand how humans grow. Creating a robot which can develop cognition in a way that a human baby does during its growth process should also help in achieving a society where robots and humans can live side by side, says Professor Kuniyoshi. "Our purpose is to build a system that can learn various behaviours and acquire various functionalities as it explores around the environment and interacting with humans,"1 he said.
Noby is a highly accurate model with the sensory and motor functions of a nine-month-old human baby. The body is covered in a soft "skin" with 600 tactile sensors. It is flexible and its joints can move like those of a human baby.

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Isn't this the beginning of every killer robot movie?

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Isn't this the beginning of every killer robot movie?

"Sarah Connor?" - T-101 in Terminator